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Profiles of Early Settlers on the Pinellas Peninsula Tampa Bay History Volume 5 Issue 1 Article 8 6-1-1983 Profiles of Early Settlers on the Pinellas eninsulaP Evelyn C. Bash Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/tampabayhistory Recommended Citation Bash, Evelyn C. (1983) "Profiles of Early Settlers on the Pinellas eninsula,P " Tampa Bay History: Vol. 5 : Iss. 1 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/tampabayhistory/vol5/iss1/8 This Genealogy is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Access Journals at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Tampa Bay History by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Bash: Profiles of Early Settlers on the Pinellas Peninsula PROFILES OF EARLY SETTLERS ON THE PINELLAS PENINSULA by Evelyn C. Bash Editor’s Note: The following sketches illustrate the history of the earliest white settlers on the Pinellas Peninsula, and we wish to encourage readers to submit similar profiles for the pioneers in their own areas. These biographical entries are listed in chronological order by the date when land claims were filed. The original inhabitants of the Pinellas Peninsula were the Tocobega Indians, and evidence of their presence is confirmed by the many mounds of shell, some of which were used for burial. The Indians lived in thatched palmetto huts in small villages, ate fish and shell fish, but also cultivated maize and other crops. Their cruel treatment by the early Spanish explorers, such as Panfilo de Narvaez, led to persistent conflicts. Two years after Pedro Menendez set up a garrison in 1597, his men were massacred by the Indians. After the massacre, there were to be no further Spanish attempts at permanent settlement in the area. Contact with the Spanish led to the virtual extinction of the local Indians, as they succumbed to diseases such as smallpox. Thus, fishermen could set up fish “ranchos” or camps unhampered by the Indians. These “ranchos” were licensed by the Spanish government in Havana, and the fish was cured and then shipped to Cuba. Among the fishermen were Jose Maria Caldez who settled at Oyster River on Old Tampa Bay in 1814, and Joaquin Caldez, who settled at the same place in 1824.1 * * * * * * * Philippe Odet Philippe is said to have been born in Lyons, France, in 1769 and to have studied medicine there. He was in the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805, where he was captured by the British and exiled to the Bahamas. Released after two years, he sailed to Charleston, South Carolina. Odet Philippe was listed in the 1810 Census in South Carolina. His first wife was Hortense de Medici, whom he married in 1807. She lived only a few years after her marriage to Philippe. About 1810 to 1814, he married Dorothee Desmottes. They had four daughters: Louise Poleanna, born August 7, 1814; Mary Elizabeth Octavia, January 27, 1816; Charlotte Septima Marie, February 17, 1820 and Merlinya/Melanie, December 17, 1825. All were born in Charleston.2 On December 3, 1822, Philippe filed an application for U.S. citizenship in the U.S. Circuit Court in Charleston.3 A few years later, financial difficulties forced Philippe to leave Charleston and seek a new home.4 Published by Scholar Commons, 1983 1 Tampa Bay History, Vol. 5 [1983], Iss. 1, Art. 8 Philippe is believed to have sailed in his schooner, The Ney, down Florida’s east coast to the Indian River where, near present-day Fort Lauderdale, he settled and began to make salt from sea water. When this project failed, he began to plant citrus.5 Warned of an Indian uprising, Philippe set sail once more and spent several years in Key West. It was here, on January 17, 1829, that he received his citizenship papers.6 In September, 1830, Philippe sold a small building at the back of Government House to Robert B. Stanard.7 On February 17, 1833, Philippe was appointed Justice of the Peace for Monroe County.8 In Key West on August 12, 1833, Elizabeth Octavia Philippe and George P. Washington were issued a license to wed.9 Later, she was to marry Charles Papy, and a third husband, John Alvarez, on April 12, 1865.10 In 1833, a Negro slave Philippe owned in Charleston was sold to Edward Chandler.11 In June, 1836 in Key West, Philippe made a deed “in trust to Wm. R. Hackley as trustee for Philippe’s wife, Marie Charlotte Florance Philippe, of a billiard table, glasses, etc.”12 which items he had purchased a year earlier from Andrew Anderson.13 It was probably soon after this that Philippe arrived at his new home site on Old Tampa Bay. A home was built of logs from trees felled on the site. He called his home, St. Helena.14 Philippe chose for his home, land near the shore at The Point at the head of the bay, near a large Indian mound.15 The U.S. Census for 1840 lists Philippe in Hillsborough County. Hillsborough County, which at that time included the Pinellas Peninsula, was established in 1834. Florida was still a territory of the United States under the administration of Andrew Jackson. Statehood was not to come until 1845. Philippe is credited with being the first to plant grapefruit in rows.16 When Philippe settled here, Pinellas Peninsula and the rest of central Florida was a wilderness. There were no roads or wagon trails. The land was covered with forests, palmettos, dense growing shrubs, and tall grasses.17 The “Gale of 1848,” a severe hurricane, destroyed Philippe’s house, killed his citrus grove, and cut into the Indian mound. He later resettled on higher ground on the southside of the mound.18 Philippe’s second home on the peninsula had two front rooms, separated by a hall, and one room across the back of the house. This house remained standing until 1916. A cook house was separate from the main house. Philippe lived with his daughters. The two front rooms were bedrooms occupied by the girls. 19 Philippe slept in the loft above the large back room where the family did their chores. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/tampabayhistory/vol5/iss1/8 2 Bash: Profiles of Early Settlers on the Pinellas Peninsula The Florida Census of 1840 lists Odet Philippe and only nineteen other heads of households in the county. We know that Philippe made his way to Tampa on many occasions, because early Hillsborough County records show that on February 5, 1839, he purchased three lots on Tampa Street for $100 from Augustus Steele. On these lots, Philippe had erected two billiard parlors and pinball alleys for the amusement of the soldiers of Fort Brooke. The records also show that in 1842, Philippe also owned an oyster house, two Negro slaves, Anthony and John; five horses and a colt, four mules, five cows and six calves, hogs, hunting dogs, a wagon, a barouche and harnesses.20 In April, 1841, the U.S. Army established Fort Harrison on the bluffs overlooking Clear Water Harbor. The fort was used as a convalescent center for the men at Fort Brooke who had Display at the Safety Harbor Museum showing how early Indians living on the contracted malaria and other diseases. The fort Pinellas Peninsula may have looked when was named for William Henry Harrison, who, Odet Philippe arrived there in the 1830s. only the previous month, had been inaugurated ninth president of the United States. The fort was abandoned in October of the same year.21 The Second Seminole War had prevented many from coming to Florida. The end of the War in May, 1842, followed by the Armed Occupation Act, opened up the area to settlers. Until the Armed Occupation Act of August 4, 1842, settlers in this part of Florida were actually “squatters” who established homes on any land they happened to fancy. The Act provided that 160 acres would be given to any head of a family or single men over eighteen years of age “who would bear arms and live on the land in a fit habitation” for five years and cultivate at least five acres. This spurred several claims to be made along Tampa Bay in the Bayview area and on Clear Water Bay near Clear Water Harbor.22 Philippe, under the Armed Occupation Act, filed a claim November 1, 1842, for land at Worth's Harbor at the head of Old Tampa Bay. He received his permit, #80 on Jan. 17, 1843, and his patent to the land was filed on June 2, 1850 in Hillsborough Deed Book A, p. 269.23 Leveque/Levick Published by Scholar Commons, 1983 3 Tampa Bay History, Vol. 5 [1983], Iss. 1, Art. 8 Leveque came to Florida in February, 1842. George Watson, deputy surveyor, called him “French John.” Leveque claimed land at Boca Ciega Bay, 8 miles from “Punta Pinales.” Permit #589 was granted him on June 30, 1843. Land was listed in Hillsborough Deed Book C, p. 145, October 12, 1866.24 Stephens James Stephens was born in Georgia in 1805, came to Florida in 1839, and settled briefly in Newnansville in Alachua County. He was listed there in the 1840 Census. He filed his claim, September 5,1842 for land at Clear Water Harbor which had been occupied by the Fort Harrison. He was issued Permit #28, December 28, 1842 and received his patent for the land November 1, 1848. This land embraced all the territory west of the present Ft. Harrison Avenue from Drew Street South to Jeffords Street in Clearwater.25 Before coming to Florida, Stephens and his wife, Elendar, had two sons and a daughter, all born in Georgia between 1830 and 1838: Eli-Ely, James Alfred, Elizabeth.
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